So, with my updating of my Battlemage elemental Cadence build + building a lightning Cadence Tactician I realised that there’s not much gear that allows for more skill points for Cadence nodes that aren’t for physical, pierce, bleed and chaos types. Especially for rings, hand gloves, while there’s only 2 types of gear, a caster chest armour, the Myth. Shroud of Illusion and boots, caster boots of Myth. Boots of Primordial Rage.
And while there is MI’s that can help, they still only cover 3 slots and don’t have a lot of synergy.
So we really need more gear that helps support elemental type Cadence, which would allow for much builds. Especially if it had elemental -RR% procs, say as part of a Battlemage set.
Brain’s dead, so can’t write this right because forgetting words, which is an ADHD symptom
There should be an elemental Battlemage set… For both melee and caster. A general set. Something like Krieg for aether. And it should have % elemental RR on skill or proc that it gives.
Battemage perhaps, but for elemental cadence, it’s far better to go Tactician. It trades OA from Arcanist for more damage from Inquisitor and they got AoC. Also with elemental Cadence, only the Cadence part is better to reach 26/16, and in the current state, it’s not that hard to reach that level.
Except Deadly Momentum is a huge source of damage and pushing it has high as possible results in massive increases in DPS. Even when converted or Discord is used. So much so it’s actually worth pushing it with gear. But sadly there’s fluff all options outside of MI’s to help with that and it further restricts options to get 26/16 on Cadence.
As for Battlemage - it’s helped by the shear amount of damage you can stack, plus OA, attack speed and Mirror/Sphere. While Scion of Arcane forces helps with the lack of RR a bit, but not enough that a new set with -RR% as a proc wouldn’t be a major help. Also, with Inquisitor you’re still stuck with a single source of RR, but with less damage unless you can convert some of the flat pierce the mastery gives you. Even less if you’re going melee.
Even with only AoC as the elemental shred, my Tactician can still reach at least 74 elemental shred and another 32 from Elemental Storm, plus the AoC damage reduction can still help it in pushing SR81. That Tactician performance is comparable to my Battlemage Scion Cadence with some devotion and item swap
I have this Cadence Battlemage. It does SR85. No boss is a problem. Both offensively and defensively it is good for a Battlemage. I killed Grava with it several times today in SR85. Played it again before I posted this to be sure.
while i’ve been occupied with other colossal dumb stuff today utterly wasting my time (and others’, sry tqFan ) re your mention of not enough sleep in the other thread
i had this comment in the back of my mind for some reason, and had a really really dumb thought earlier, which i never got around to messing with because of the aforementiond dumb waste of time
aaanyway, yes Scion has some cool mods and stuff, occultist/arcanist “things” wooo
buuut, allow me to put a silly notion out there because of a recent update
(assuming we just don’t go full fantasy using an elemental prefix too )
now, it’s really based in absolutely nothing but the recent buff to cadence on it, in particular the TDM interaction, TDM which will stack multiplicatively with Discord
Fangs of Asterkarn will allow for a better chance of farming those elemental Voldrak’s Crusher via the Ascension Altar. So the fantasy may yet prove reality
) re your mention of not enough sleep in the other thread 
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